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The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of Len and Helen Prior in that they have a right to appeal against the threat of their house in Vera being declared illegal by the Junta de Andalucía and – worse still – having it knocked down.
Only one problem I can think of – the Junta (in the shape of the Delegado Provincial de Viviendas) er, knocked their house down in January 2008 – additionally doing enormous harm to the provincial economy.
I’m sure the Priors will be relieved to hear that it was all just a silly mistake.

Sadly, the Priors will have paid a heavy price in this whole wretched affair.

Not least, the toll it will have taken on their health and soul.

If they can take any consolation from their awful circumstances, they should feel proud that their personal experience has become the focus of a far wider problem that has been propelled to the forefront of the European media.

They have become (through their video on youtube) the official envoys of all victims of the Spanish Property Scandal (I hope Suzanne will forgive me for using her creditable campaign name) and consequently should take some strenght and a huge sense of pride for that.

I hope it replenishes their strenght and that their dream can be rebuilt in full, with compensation so they can remain in Spain and continue their dream – for a long time!

Spain does not work on logic. Haven’t you realised by now ?? Logic is a very Anglo Saxon concept.

First and foremost all my simpathy goes to the Priors. It is true that their plight has gone pretty much unnoticed in Spain, but the few comments I have heard about it have been on the supportive side rather than “…serves those silly foreigners right…”

It’s not a question of logic as much as political expediency. The (Almeria born) Gauleiter for the area, Luís Caparrós, wanted to knock the house down (incidentally helping to cause huge loss of sales and jobs in the province – jobless at 27% the highest in Spain) for his own agenda. Remember he was promoted by the Junta de Andalucía after the demolition.
No apologies to the Priors nor to the people of Almería. This guy is gonna go far!

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